Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-15
Miscellaneous Items.

The stove-molders' strike in st. Louis
has ended, and the men, or such of them
as were needed, have returned to work.
Emil Doering, of Sedalia, telegraphed te
st. Louis that he was dead, in the hope
that it would induce his wife to return te
him, but it didn't work.
Minnie Waldron, a handsome st. oseph
blonde, aged seventeen, met a drummer
on a train a few days ago while en- route
for home from visit to a brother. The
festive tourist, whose names is Bogart, in.
duced the young lady to elope with him,
| and the pair went to Topeka, where they
| registered at a hotel as man and wife,
| though whether married or not has not
transpired. They afterwards left for
| Kansas City, since when nothing has been
heard of them.
Nearly one hundred cows died in ST.
! Louis last week of Texas fever and the dis.
ease is reported spreading.
The United States District Court at JEFF
ferson City will try the fancy County Bald
Knobbers at the present term.
Hazel nuts, acorns, black haws, hickory
nuts, as we'll as persimmons and wild
grapes are going to be plentiful in the
northern counties.
Ralph E. Cross, of Minneapolis, Mimi,
is under arrest at Sedalia, on charge of
embeZZlement.
Misses Lena and Katie Funck, two young
women residing with their mother in st.
/ Louis, created a scene q few evenings
since by assaulting Henry Treber, a young
mechanic, with a cane. The young women
| claimed that Treber had talked about them
| in an improper way, and that they felt it
| their duty to chastise him, while, on the
! other hand, Treber denied their state
ment and said there was nothing in the
| case.
| Governor Marmaduke writes from Bel
GUM that he will leave for home Septem-
Der 49,
| Judge Vance, editor of the Osceoa i'd
! rance, has been convicted in the United
States Court at Jefferson City of obstruct-
ing legal process.
| William Loree committed suicide at In
| dependence few days ago by swallowing
twenty grains of laudanum.
| Two more Bald Knobbers. Jackson Sill
vey, ST., and r. E. Denney, were convict
| ed in the United States Court at Jefferson
City.
The venerable Hannibal Hamlin, the
! only living ex-Vice-President of the United
States, viii come JAIL the way from Maine
to Missouri to attend the G. A. r. En-
campment. Mr.. Hamlin has just COM
| pleted his seventy-eighth year.
A partition suit, involving land in Kan
sas City worth over $500 900, was filed re-
Gently in the Circuit Court. The petition
ers are George F. and Matte Anderson,
| heirs of the late George Anderson, who was
| possessed of nearly two-thirds of the
property in the city.
| The jury in the United States District
Court at Jefferson City returned verdict
of guilty in the case of Jackson Silvey, Jr.,
and Berry Hancock, two of the Douglas
County Bald-Knobbers, charged with
whipping and otherwise intimidating
homesteaders. The jury was only out
| forty minutes and returned verdict of
! guilty. A motion for a new trial was filed
Immediately.
| The golden wedding of Mr.. and Mrs. F.
L. Maupin, of st. Joseph, took place on
Sunday, September II. There were pres
ent at the reunion four children, fifteen
grandchildren and two great-grandchil-
dren, all of whom live in the city. Mr..
and Mrs. Maupin were married in Madi.
son County, KY, Semptember II, 1887, by
Rev. DR.. Oliver Steel, of the Christian
| Church, and the next morning started for
Missouri, settling in Monroe County.
They moved to Buchanan County in 1874
and located in st. Joseph, where they
have lived ever since. Mr.. Maupin is
/ seventy-six years old and his wife sixty
| nine.
| The following appointments have been
made by Governor Morehouse as dele
| gates to represent Missouri at the Ameri
can Forestry Congress, which meets at
| Springfield, ILL.,, September IA, Is and 10
Hon. VIM. E. Coleman, G. c. Bell, of
Cooper County, and John O'Fallon, of
jefferson County. AS delegates from
this State to the Constitutional Centen-
NAL Convention, to be held at Philadel-
phia, Pa, September Is, 16and 17-Colonel
James o. Broadhead, of st. Louis, and
Ex-Governor Thomas T. Crittenden, of
Kansas City, to represent the State at
| large, and one from each Congressional
| district, as follows: First district, John
NJ. Wood; Second, J. H. Shanklin; Third,
j. W. Alexander; Fourth, Waller Young;
Fifth, Morrison Munford; Sixth, DR.. S. S.
Laws; Seventh, D. A. Ball; Eighth; r.
Graham Frost; Ninth, Judge John w.
Emerson; Eleventh, John A. Hockaday;
Twelfth, B. G.. Boone; Thirteenth, c. B.
McAffee; Fourteenth, Marshall Arnold.
st. Louis is to have a crematory.
Keyes, the lumber wagon driver whose
abuse of his horses at Kansas City caused
a young lady who was passing to ex-
claim, 'sYou brute! wish you would fall
off and break your neck" and who almost
Immediately afterward overturned his
loaded wagon ON himself, died from his in.
juries.
amos Avery, boy about fifteen years
old, was lodged in Jail at Kansas City by
deputy United States marshal on the
charge of robbing the United States mails.
Avery is a boy of good parentage, but is
an exceedingly tough character and takes
his commitment with amazing nonchal-
ance.
The great Exposi ion in st. Louis is now
open in more attractive shape than ever.
Mrs. Hadessah C. Shultz, wife of As
sistant United States Treasurer Chauncey
F. Shultz, died few nights ago at her
residence in st. Louis.
Gas has been struck by the lndepen-
dence Natural Gas & Coal Company on
the Judge James K. Shelley farm, three
miles southwest of Independence.
The annual conference of the M. q.
Church South, began at Mexico on the 7th
inst, Bishop Hendrix presiding. The
conference is composed of nine presiding
elder districts, and has 142 enrolled and
140 local preachers. The membership is
g., $50. Last year there was an increase
of 4, S54 in the membership.
A new battalion of militia is to be or
Canized in st. Louis.